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What are the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
Define AWS regions and availability zones.
Regions are geographic areas with multiple isolated locations. Availability Zones (AZs) are isolated data centers within a region connected by low-latency networking.
What is the shared responsibility model in AWS?
AWS is responsible for security OF the cloud (infrastructure, hardware, software). Customers are responsible for security IN the cloud (data, access management, configuration).
Describe the primary use cases for EC2, S3, and RDS.
EC2: compute/virtual servers. S3: scalable object storage. RDS: managed relational databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle).
What is AWS Lambda and what pricing model does it use?
Serverless compute service that runs code without provisioning servers. Pricing: pay per invocation and compute time (GB-seconds); includes free tier.
Explain AWS Auto Scaling and its benefit.
Automatically adjusts capacity to match demand. Benefit: optimizes costs and maintains performance by scaling up during demand spikes and scaling down during low usage.
What are AWS security groups and network ACLs?
Security Groups: stateful firewall at instance level, allow rules only. Network ACLs: stateless firewall at subnet level, allow and deny rules.
Compare AWS support plans: Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise.
Basic: free, limited. Developer: business hours email support. Business: 24/7 phone/email, <1hr response. Enterprise: 24/7 TAM, <15min response, full AWS support.
Define AWS CloudFront and its primary benefit.
Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations globally. Benefit: reduces latency and improves performance for end users worldwide.
What are the main cost optimization strategies in AWS?
Reserved Instances (1-3yr commitments), Savings Plans, Spot Instances, right-sizing, auto-scaling, using managed services, and monitoring with Cost Explorer.
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